Thursday, December 28, 2017

Fear of the Dark

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The Night Doctors in Folk Belief and Historical Reality For generations, an ominous warning had been used to instill fear and obedi...
Saturday, September 10, 2016

Sex, Satanism and Sacrificial Slaughter

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The Fall River Cult Murders, 1979-80 The new age may have dawned in the 1960s, but it would never fully shine. For many, spiritual aw...
Friday, June 3, 2016

Ritual Murder in Rural England

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The Strange Case of Charles Walton A brutal murder is reported in a quiet West Midlands village. Local authorities are unable to come u...
Friday, April 17, 2015

Wretched of the Earth

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Peasant Armies, Apocalyptic Prophecies and the Christian Atrocities of the First Crusade “ In the cities of these peoples that the Lord ...
Thursday, September 11, 2014

Rites of Desecration

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Suicide, Sacrilege and the Crossroads Burial Although suicide has always been considered to be the most personal of acts, it h...
Saturday, July 12, 2014

The Great Dying

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New England's Coastal Plague, 1616-1619 “ [How] strangely they have decreased by the Hand of God... and it hath generally been obser...
Tuesday, January 14, 2014

No Gods, No Masters

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Blasphemy, Desecration and Anticlerical Violence During the Spanish Civil War "If God existed, only in one way could he serve human ...
Saturday, November 9, 2013

The Infernal Hole and the Unsettled Dead

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The Cursed Project to Build America's First Subway System The Boston commute has always been a nightmare, but by the later 19th c...